This starts off with "I chose..." and ends with "there should be a mandate"
It's very easy for people who wear pants to live a life where their phone is never switched off of vibrate mode and lives in their pocket. They will never need a noisy phone, and this is how I life my life.
My wife has pockets on about 10% of her clothes, and so typically her phone is in a purse, or on the table next to her. She will not notice it vibrating, thus, she uses the convenient for her feature where it audibly rings. My mother is the same way, but she uses hers so infrequently it simply sits plugged into a charger and works like an old landline. She also uses the ring feature.
Your own issues with noise (which I share many of, by the way) do not entitle you or I to request "mandates" that affect others negatively. The world's a big place and you have to learn to share it with other people.
It's not even about pockets. I will NOT feel my phone vibrate in most cases, even if it's in my pocket and I'm sitting down so my phone is laying on top of my leg.
Working in certain environments also where vibrate isn't harsh enough to inform you, you can't wear a headset, and you have ear protection in, all there can be is a super loud ringtone.
Your wife's clothing choices are just that: her choices.
> The world's a big place and you have to learn to share it with other people.
Yes, it is, and one of the things you're supposed to learn is not to engage in public behaviors that annoy other people, just for your personal convenience.
I despise the feeling of wearing a watch (or almost anything else around my wrists). They're also a significant added expenses that many can't afford, and not nearly useful enough to actually justify that expense.
Both my wife and I have apple watches. The battery life is bad enough that you have to either charge it at night (and miss out on the sleep tracking features) or charge it during the day for an hour (and remember to go get it once it's charged).
I know the newer near a thousand dollar models can get better battery life but my 2 year old version and her 5 year old version do not last much past 24 hours.
Other watchmakers have made very different design tradeoffs to produce better battery life. A base mode Garmin will happily run for over a week. The fancy models over a month. They still have great tracking and notification features. Might be worth a look when your current hardware no longer meets your needs.
Explicitly trying not to pile on the “let me tell you how to manage your notifications” train by the way! That’s up to you and yours. Just nerding out on smartwatches.
Agree. I have a Garmin and I charge it most days for 10-15min when I'm showering (most because every now and then I take it to the shower for a wash). It's usually between 80 and 90% charged this way.
One caveat is that notifications are quite basic and there's no way to respond to them - it's push only. They also always get sent to the watch straight away even if they're set to notify once a day (this is probably an iPhone limitation - no idea how it works on Android).
Phone ringing is already banned in some places, like public transport in some countries. I guess OPs argument is to expand this to more public areas and that your wife wouldn't pick up phone calls there in the first place. If she wants to notice her text notifications when e.g. on the train or in the mall, she'd have to pick the phone out of her bag.
I can imagine it being against the rules, such as in a silent compartment on Dutch/German trains (which is imo nearly the same as law because it's a subsidised public service), and perhaps some religious state has it codified that churches are not to be disturbed or whatever, but that doesn't mean it gets enforced if you're clearly flustered, sorry, and decline the call immediately and it doesn't keep happening to the same person.
So even if you get an answer to "where in the world", I'd like to add "but does that get actively enforced at all?"
Having the rule gives complaints legitimacy and avoid that you feel like you're the problem, when apparently people generally agree (or it wouldn't/shouldn't pass parliament) that the problem is <insert noise threshold>. Having the rule probably solves 90%+ of the problem
The remaining <10% is obnoxious people who are going to be obnoxious anyhow. I dunno, they'll probably use strobe lights to draw everyone's attention instead of using sound because that gets around the law. Wait, crap, that exists already (I love people sitting opposite me in the bus and 'flashing' me every 12 seconds)
Most of the train companies in Tokyo have signs asking you to use "manner mode" (vibrate). Some also have signs asking you to be considerate and not have your headphone volume too loud because it can disturb others.
However, my impression is that this is mostly advisory/social pressure and not actually a ban that has any consequences if broken.
It's very easy for people who wear pants to live a life where their phone is never switched off of vibrate mode and lives in their pocket. They will never need a noisy phone, and this is how I life my life.
My wife has pockets on about 10% of her clothes, and so typically her phone is in a purse, or on the table next to her. She will not notice it vibrating, thus, she uses the convenient for her feature where it audibly rings. My mother is the same way, but she uses hers so infrequently it simply sits plugged into a charger and works like an old landline. She also uses the ring feature.
Your own issues with noise (which I share many of, by the way) do not entitle you or I to request "mandates" that affect others negatively. The world's a big place and you have to learn to share it with other people.